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**SilverMK2**

Ahhhh... I see. I made a custom stockpile and didn't enable stone

Cheers.

**Grakmar**

SilverMK2 wrote:Ahhhh... I see. I made a custom stockpile and didn't enable stone

Cheers.

Don't enable stone!!! You generate so much of it that it will quickly take up all the space in your stockpile.

Instead, create a garbage dump. Then, designate all that stone for dumping. (Mass selection by using d-b-d). Your dwarves will come by pile all that stone into the 1-tile garbage dump.

You can also be tricky by placing the dump next to your mason's workshop, or near to wherever you're doing masonry (building walls, floors, etc). Then, mass reclaim all that stone (d-b-r I think) and you'll have a massive pile of useable stone right next to where your masons need it!

**Tyyr**

Yeah, never stockpile stone. The quantum stone dump Grak described is your best bet. Personally I make my dump a bit bigger because a one tile dump can be a problem if you've got 100+ dwarves in your fort.

**SilverMK2**

Yes, I have discovered that my 800 million square stone store got filled quite quickly

I was trying to work out how to get the stone into the dump - which is one reason I just made the store

**Melissia**

I somehow managed to run OUT of stone while building an above ground fort extension to my entryway.

A problem easily rectified.

**Tyyr**

Ran out... does not compute...

**Grakmar**

You ran out of stone? That must mean you aren't mining very much...

She's an elf! Get her!

**Tyyr**

Elf, ELLLLFFFF!

Someone ready the Magma.

**biccat**

Tyyr wrote:Elf, ELLLLFFFF!

Someone ready the Magma.

What's wrong with elves? I love elves! They buy useless trinkets in exchange for delicious alcohol and cats.

Plus, if you embark near an elf village you can raid their buildings for wood.

What's not to like?

**Tyyr**

They're tree fondling hypocrites without the decency to be worth butchering for meat.

**Melissia**

I like elves, they provide me with exotic animals to slaughter for food.

Mm, dat's sum gud cheetah.

**Tyyr**

Do you put your trade depot right next to your butcher shop and gut the animals you buy before the elves even leave though? Trust me, there's nothing quite like buying a panda from them, moving it three squares, then gutting it for panda steaks while they watch. Bonus points if you can somehow get a kitchen and a dining hall in sight of them as well.

**Doctadeth**

I commited the immoral. I edited my adventurer to have another limb....ahem.

Yeah, nothing like knocking an elf out with your.....yeah I'll just leave that there.

**Lord of battles**

Just downloaded Dwarf Fortress, trying it now

**Tyyr**

I highly recommend using some of the tutorials.

**Melissia**

A conversation on the Bay12 forums.

Dear Urist,
Why do you come in waves that almost triple the size of my fortress population?
-- Overseer Melissia

Dear questioning overseer:
There be gold in them thar hills. ... Well, maybe not gold, but wealth to be certain. And it seems to call us...
Urist mcMigrant

Dear Urist mcMigrant,

Welcome to the militia. Here's your maple training axe and spider silk cloth hat. Now let's go hunting trolls.

-- Overseer Melissia

Dear Overseer Melissia:

Well, tha' was fun. Blighter got meh a few times wit' 'is fists, but they jus' glanced off me nice hat.
It may 'ave taken a wee bit, but I go' 'em all for ye!

-- Urise McLegendaryAxedwarf

Dear Urist McLegendaryAxedwarf,

Congratulations! You are now a valuable member of this fortress. This means that, though you will still be sent on suicide missions for the good of the fortress, you will receive one (1) 3x3 bedroom, smoothed and engraved by the many not-so-valuable members of the fortress. As empty bedrooms are not useful to the fortress, you will also be provided with with one (1) finely crafted fungiwood bed, one (1) finely crafted limestone throne, one (1) finely crafted limestone table, one (1) finely crafted limestone coffer, and four (4) finely crafted limestone statues.

Upon completion of an additional feat to the benefit of the fortress, you will be assigned one (1) finely crafted silver sarcophagus and associated 3x3 burial chamber. If you do not manage to complete an additional feat before you die, you will be buried in a communal chamber.

You are also permitted to eat and drink from the BLUE barrels now. You are still not permitted to eat or drink from the BLACK barrels. If the BLUE barrels run out, you are permitted to drink from the RED barrels, and eat from the GREEN barrels. If you are caught drinking from the GREEN barrels, you will be flogged. If you are caught eating from the RED barrels, you will be flogged, and then beaten. If you are caught allowing the food in the BLUE barrels to go rotten, you will be flogged, and then beaten, and then imprisoned.

If you are caught eating and/or drinking from the BLACK barrels, no punishment will be necessary, and may Armok have mercy on your soul.

-- Overseer Melissia

Thus the evolution of my character as a Dwarf Fort player.

**Tyyr**

Sounds about right.

Huge migrant waves are the norm for me in the second year. I had a fort with 16 dwarves get hit with migrant waves of 25, 9, 26, and 20 in the second year. I spent most of that year carving out bedrooms and enlarging the dining hall.

**Doctadeth**

My last 15 turns as adventurer. You crawl after the goblin warlord. You retch.

**Tyyr**

Oh, speaking of housing. I used to do 3x3 rooms but they eat up a lot of space. Right now I'm liking a 2x3 room. Enough room for the essentials without expecting the dwarf to step over their coffer to get to their bed.

I could drop this down to 2x2 and lose the chair, really the chair is the last thing I add anyways, but I still like giving them a bit of space to call their own. To boost value I can smooth and engrave all the walls and still have space between the cabinet and bed for a statue if I really need it. Given how quickly my masons hit legendary most of the furniture is masterpieces or close enough and same for the engravings. It shoots the fort value up but come the dwarven economy these, "Bedrooms like a personal palace" will kill me. Though do to owning all this fine stuff and amazing bedroom most of my dwarves are permanently ecstatic and as tantrum proof as I can make them.

**Melissia**

I do this:

O, -, | = walls
S = statue
B = bed
H = Cabinet
N = Container
T = Table
D = Door
C = Chair

It's cramped, but most of my dwarves seem to like it, all except for my nobles. Having this kind of room tends to make the dwarves happier while being easy to arrange. I have excess stone anyway so building statues helps bring my mason(s) up in skill.

**Tyyr**

I know dwarves don't see things like tables and chairs as impediments to their movement but I just can't bring myself to cram them in like that.

Be careful with the nobles. If someone else has a room close to or exceeding theirs in value they will absolutely lose their gak. I lost my first baron to that.

**Melissia**

My mayor has her 3x5 office, a 5v5 bedroom, and a 5x5 dining room, all of which have statue gardens in them. She's happy. I left room to expand the bedroom and dining room for when Momuz Erithigath "The Malign Spear" the Axelady inevitably becomes the baron or whatever.

And yes, a legendary axedwarf is called "The Malign Spear". She got it after she killed six goblins in one battle dual-wielding an iron battle axe and a wooden training axe, WHILE she has a buckler and shield strapped to her arms.

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... my smithy forged a statue of a dwarf making a door.